WordPress 5 Cookbook

How to do it...

Use the following steps to protect the site with a single global password:

1. Open the wpcookbookchapter12.php file of the WPCookbook Chapter 12 plugin.
2. Add the following code block to display a form for capturing the password from the user:

add_action('init','wpcpp_ch12_global_password_protection');function wpcpp_ch12_global_password_protection(){  // Step 3 code should be placed in the next line  $html = "<div>".$error_message."</div>    <form name='' method='POST' >    <lalebl>".__('Site Password','wpccp')."</label>    <input type='password' name='wpcpp_global_password' />    <input type='submit' value='".__('Verify','wpccp')."' /></form>"; echo $html;exit;}

3. Add the following code block before the definition of the $html variable to ...